[QGIS-ZA-user] SOLVED: Re: Field calculator issue - QGIS version,3.10.1-A Coruña on Win10 via OSGEO4W64

[Neil Falconer]

Hi Zoltan, Seems crazy but could it possibly be because the 17 is an
integer...if it was 17.0 it would be recognised as a Double? Regards Neil

On Fri, 8 May 2020, 16:04 Zoltan Szecsei via qgis-za-user, <
qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hiya,
> Blooming decimal point/comma issue :-(
>
> Thanks anyway,
> Zoltan
>
> On 2020/05/08 16:26, Zoltan Szecsei via qgis-za-user wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Can anyone shed light on why I get:  Eval Error: Cannot convert '[LonM]'
> to double
> from this expression:
>
> if( "LonD"  IS 'Longitude' , 0.0,  "LonD" + (  "LonM"  / 60.0 ))
>
> I've pulled a CSV file into 'Layer' and failed to generate Point using
> Toolbox->Geometry by Expression, so I am now trying to create decimal Deg
> columns (virtual).
> The first few lines in the CSV are:
>
> Num,LonD,LonM,LonS,DirE,LatD,LatM,LatS,DirN
> A1,Longitude,Latitude,,,,
> 1,17,25.00,0.0,E,23,7.53,0.0,N
> 2,17,25.10,0.0,E,23,7.52,0.0,N
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Zoltan
>
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